1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 657 



in the anterior part and on the sides, the punctures, which are not 

 very closely set, are obliterated in the centre and the median basal 

 part of the disk ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra punctate and striate, 

 the dorsal costules moderately raised ; pygidium aciculate ; pectus 

 pubescent, abdominal segments each with a median line of bristly 

 hairs*; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly ; inner claw of all tarsi 

 simple in the 3 ■ 



This species resembles A. transvaalcnsis, Arr. but it is redder ; 

 the shape of the genital armature of the $ differs greatly from that 

 of the other South African species. 



Length 14 mm. ; width 1\ mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). 



Anomala latiuscula, n. sp. 



Female : Pale flavescent with a slight metallic tinge on the upper 

 side ; head rufescent brown ; prothorax with two very faint sub- 

 infuscate patches on each side of the median part ; head covered 

 with contiguous rugose punctures from the apex of the slightly 

 blunted clypeus to a short distance from the vertex where they are 

 replaced by a fine, closely-set, simple punctuation ; prothorax nearly 

 twice as broad as long, slightly ampliate rounded laterally but only 

 slightly attenuate towards the base, the whole surface is covered 

 with fine punctures somewhat uneven but separated even on the 

 sides by a space equal, or very nearly so, to their own diameter ; 

 scutellum finely punctulate as in the prothorax ; elytra very little 

 longer than broad, slightly wider than the prothorax at the base, but 

 sub-obliquely ampliated from below the rounded shoulder, and with 

 the supra-marginal fold greatly raised and very conspicuous, the 

 striae are very well defined and deeply punctate; pygidium sub- 

 contiguously deeply punctate ; abdomen sparingly, metasternum 

 closely punctate; tarsi and apical part of tibiae redder, or 

 infuscate. 



This species is distinguished by its short, broad facies and the 

 swollen fold of the supra-marginal space below the humeral callus ; 

 this character occurs also in A. dorsata, Fahr., and A. fusciceps, Fahr., 

 but in a much lesser degree. This species should therefore follow or 

 precede them. 



Length 11 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hah. Damaraland (Okahandja). 



Anomala exigua, n. sp. 



Male : Piceous black, very shiny, elytra pale flavescent, almost 

 straw colour, with the outer margins and the suture narrowly black ; 



